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Category: Editorial

  • 22-01-2009 Hanzel und Gretyl

    Supports: Next Waste Dimension, Deadcell; Venue: Dynamo, Eindhoven (Netherlands) By: Petra Ghuijs Having seen both support acts before, about one year earlier, I wasn’t exactly sure what I thought of this line-up. Truth be told, last time I saw NWD and Deadcell they didn’t impress me that much… I was curious to see if these…

  • Mortal Form – Taste The Blood

    Releasedate: 16-01-2009; Label: My Kingdom Music By: Sabine van Gameren The Dutch Death Metal formation Mortal Form released their full length album “Taste The Blood”

  • 17-01-2009 Monsters of Mariaheide

    Venue: Erp/Mariaheide (Netherlands) By: Elvira Visser Somewhere in the middle of nowhere, well according to me a city dweller, it was time for a festival. The festival has a history that dates back to 1992, this year they had chosen a new location because the number of visitors is still growing. Their choice for this…

  • Glowing Elephant – Radioactive Creampies

    Releasedate: 23-01-2009; Label: Abandon / New Music Distribution By: Nina Mende Glowing Elephants is a very young band from Cologne/Germany. They have now their debut album released.

  • Evocation – Dead Calm Chaos

    Releasedate: 31-10-2008; Label:Cyclone Empire / Soulfood By: Sabine van Gameren Evocation comes from Sweden, a country that has quite a reputation when in comes to Metal. The band plays old school death metal.

  • Yumma-re – Eden

    Releasedate: 26-01-2009; Label: My Kingdom Music By: Sabine van Gameren Yumma-re, founded in 1996, are a band from Italy making “”hypnotic music”. In the start of January they release their album “Eden” via My Kingdom Records.

  • Last Warning – Throughout Time

    Releasedate: 16-01-2009; Label: My Kingsdom Music By: Sabine van Gameren Italian progressive metal band Last Warning suddenly released a new album, after 8 years of silence. “Throughout Time” it is called, released via My Kingdom Music.

  • 03-01-2009 Rokkers’ ball 2

    Venue: Ravintola Waïski, Helsinki (Finland) By: Sabine van Gameren The second edition of Rokkersball at Ravintola Waïski in Helsinki (Finland) is a fact. In this edition five bands played on the dinnerboat.

  • Entwine – Painstained

    Releasedate: 28-01-2009; Label: Spinefarm Records By: Elvira Visser The Finnish band Entwine was founded back in 1995, when they started out as a death metal ensemble from Lahti. Since then the band had changed because they felt they were too limited when playing death metal. They wanted to use their creativity and Entwine evolved into…

  • Iron Fire – To the Grave

    Releasedate: 09-01-2009; Label: Napalm Records By: Elvira Visser Iron fire is a Danish band that was founded back in 1995. The mastermind of the band is Martin Steene. He lived through some ups and downs since the existence of Iron Fire until present day. In 2006 Iron Fire released their album “Revenge” which is an…

  • Gravedigger – Ballads of a Hangman

    Releasedate: 09-01-2009; Label: Nuclear Blast By: Elvira Visser Grave Digger is one of those bands that has been around for quite some time, as their beginnings date back to 1980. In 1984 they released their first album “Heavy Metal Breakdown”.

  • 02-01-2008 Hail of Bullets

    Supports: Onheil, Dictated; Venue: Bibelot, Dordrecht (Netherlands) By: Elvira Visser The second day of 2009 and it was time for a metal start of the year. Tonight being the second one of the year also made me worry a little, I mean would there be enough people or would everyone still be at home. Lucky…